Practice Exam

This was used in witchcraft or enchantment especially in remote places in the Visayas.

• epic

• chant

• folk tales

• folklore

These are genres of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.

• epic

• folksong

• legends

• proverbs

These are made up of stories about life, adventure, love, horror, and humor where one can derive lessons.

• folksong

• folktales

• proverb

• epic

a ____ originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse. a song of similar character written by a known composer.

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  folksong

• proverb

• epic

• riddles

These are like proverbs with one main difference: they demand an answer and are used to test the wits of those are listening to them.

• riddles

• folklore

• tales

• question and answer

These are long narrative poems in which a series of heroic achievements or events, usually of a hero, are dealt with at length.

• chants

• proverbs

• epic

• folksong

These are practical observations and philosophy of everyday life that are written, usually in a rhyming scheme.

• proverbs

• epic

• riddles

• tales

A legendary religious narrative form that usually details the lives of saints or the history of tradition.

• Corrido

• Awit

• Pasyon

• Cenaculo

It is a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from his birth and up to his death.

• pasyon

• moro-moro

• carillo

• zarzuela

It is the dramatization of the passion of Christ. It highlights the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ, and it is also done during the Lenten season.

• zarzuela

• moro-moro

• carillo

• cenaculo